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“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg · Age

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Change

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Experience

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Age

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Imagination